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Edmonds Community College offers opportunities to integrate knowledge and skills in order to reason clearly; communicate and interact respectfully; explore critically and creatively; and act responsibly. Emphasizing these core, college wide abilities provides a consistent educational focus that encourages students and members of the college community to develop knowledge, habits, and skills for lifelong learning.
Students, who earn any of our two-year degrees or shorter-term certificates, have many opportunities across the curriculum to develop and apply college-wide abilities in preparation for their roles in an increasingly diverse, information-driven society. All course-level learning objectives in the academic catalog have been mapped to the most relevant CWA. This mapping is denoted by the inclusion of [COMMUNICATE], [ACT], [REASON], or [EXPLORE] after each objective.
Communicate and interact respectfully through critical and imaginative expression
- Exchange or present information, thoughts, feelings, insights, and perspectives to multiple audiences through a variety of written, verbal, non-verbal, visual, symbolic, and aesthetic means
- Communicate findings or results of analytic, quantitative, and creative models and processes
- Demonstrate an understanding that communication involves both sending and receiving information through active reading, speaking, and listening
- Use creative and critical processes to create common understandings, present multiple perspectives, explore divergent viewpoints and evaluate the effectiveness of one’s own and others’ communication
- Work effectively in face-to-face and online group settings
- Use appropriate tools, techniques, and technology to communicate effectively
Act responsibly, both individually and collaboratively, within changing environments
- Demonstrate professional and academic integrity, responsibility, and ethics necessary for success
- Work together toward a common end or purpose and explore differences
- Demonstrate skills and knowledge associated with the responsible stewardship and sustainability of communities and systems
- Apply appropriate tools, techniques, and technology to facilitate sustainable practices
Reason clearly using varied analytic and creative approaches
- Locate, acquire, evaluate, and apply information in response to an identified need or problem
- Analyze data by reshaping it as a quantitative model or other analytic framework in order to deepen understanding of information and to solve problems
- Use facts or premises to form conclusions, judgments, or inferences
- Use new observations, interpretations, and perspectives to reexamine or revise initial conclusions or to reconsider perspectives
- Engage in imaginative and critical inquiry to explore concepts and perspectives and to construct new knowledge, insights, or models
- Analyze, synthesize, integrate, and evaluate ideas and information from multiple perspectives in order to make complex decisions, solve problems, evaluate actions, adapt to changing situations, and plan for the future
- Use appropriate tools, techniques, and technology to solve problems
Explore critically and creatively the diversity of cultures, ethics, values, and ways of thinking across communities
- Recognize and evaluate one’s own and others’ values, ethics, actions, and perspectives and their potential effects on others
- Demonstrate the ability to make and follow through with responsible commitments
- Distinguish among personal, ethical, aesthetic, cultural, and scientific values
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practical need for and value of respecting differences among cultures and perspectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the tools, techniques, and technology that facilitate cultural and aesthetic appreciation
Revised CWAs approved May 17, 2010
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